We performed a comparison between Citrix ADM and SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cisco, Fortinet, HPE Aruba Networking and others in Network Management Applications."We like the periodic upgrades and backups, also made via ADMs, and it makes our environment much more robust and reliable."
"The most impressive thing about Citrix ADM is that we don't encounter latency."
"The most valuable features are for the ADMs and the overall monitoring environment."
"Available on any device and can be accessed on a wide area network."
"An essential component is the Director, which provides detailed insights into sessions, including identifying session failures, connection issues, user lockouts, etc. It presents a list of problems to address, enabling you to click on them and resolve them efficiently."
"We use the product for load balancing and as a reverse proxy solution."
"The analytics are a great feature."
"Content filtering, security layer, and application customization features are the most valuable."
"The configuration compliance aspect of SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager allows for easy comparison of configuration settings across branches, ensuring adherence to security guidelines and best practices. Automation capabilities have greatly impacted workflows, enabling tasks such as configuration backups, template deployment, and firmware upgrades to be automated, thereby streamlining processes and saving time. Compliance reporting features provide valuable insights into network compliance, offering pre-built security audit reports and customizable options to meet specific requirements."
"It allows us to manage backups in big companies. It is also useful in managing the configuration changes."
"It is pretty straightforward to set up."
"The solution's view is very nice, and they have a great customized dashboard."
"The feature that I really enjoy is the ability to script changes across all of your devices."
"We push all our configurations to the servers with ease and the logs capture almost all the transactions needed for an internal audit."
"The most valuable Real-time fault detection is beneficial as it enables the identification of changes made to a device's configuration through the SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager. This makes it easy to pinpoint which configurations were added or removed, potentially causing network issues. Such changes are saved in logs for future reference."
"SolarWinds NCM provides updates on the status of your network infrastructure. If any issues arise, such as a link failure or a device going offline, you will receive notifications and alerts. Additionally, if someone unplugs a cable, SolarWinds NCM will detect it. It also features a Topology Mapper that displays the connectivity of your network devices, giving you a visual representation of the network's structure. With SolarWinds NCM, you have a clear understanding of what's happening within your network and can generate comprehensive reports."
"Citrix ADM needs to improve on its additional features and reduce the communication ports."
"Citrix is more expensive than Horizon."
"The interface could be improved, some customers struggle with that."
"I would like to see the virtual and desktop license included in the pricing."
"The tool's pricing is a pain point since we have many cheaper alternatives."
"Deployment is complicated."
"They need to make the solution a little more familiar with easy study guides, learning videos, etc."
"Some features of Citrix ADM are available on the cloud, which could really be helpful if they were available on an on-premise version."
"Improvements are needed in the automatic network mapping function."
"The network logs could be improved. When the error logs come across with those false positive alarms in the error logs."
"The third-party plugins available in the solution could improve. I have received some issues with the templates."
"When we run the SolarWinds NCM jobs at the cellular line, it runs in the morning. They're just not finishing. We're getting false processing."
"The interface of solar winds could be improved."
"It would be great if they include a network service manager, network performance manager, or a privileged assessment in the next release."
"Its look and feel can be improved. They can also put in more effort into building the THWACK community and use the information about various customer issues and requests to build the new releases."
"For each device, when you open the network performance monitor, it will give you all of the information about the device, but many of the natural configuration management features are not on that page."
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Citrix ADM is ranked 9th in Network Management Applications with 9 reviews while SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager is ranked 11th in Configuration Management with 22 reviews. Citrix ADM is rated 8.4, while SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Citrix ADM writes "A tool for centralized management including inventory and sales tracking". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager writes "Streamlines network configuration and compliance processes through its centralized dashboard, although its compatibility with multi-vendor devices may present limitations". Citrix ADM is most compared with DX Spectrum, whereas SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager is most compared with Cisco DNA Center, Cisco Prime, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, OpenText Network Node Manager i and SolarWinds Kiwi CatTools.
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